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Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by genuine_froggie, Apr 1, 2005.

  1. genuine_froggie, Apr 1, 2005
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    Steve Parry Guest

    Steve Parry, Apr 1, 2005
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    Krusty Guest

    Take a look at Montenegro in that case.
     
    Krusty, Apr 1, 2005
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    Steve Parry Guest

    Krusty fumbled, fiddled and fingered:
    <fx:takes a look at bank balance first > :'(


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    Steve Parry
    K100RS SE & F650
    and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

    (not forgetting the SK90PY)

    http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk
     
    Steve Parry, Apr 1, 2005
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    Krusty Guest

    Ah, well if you can't afford a place in Montenegro, you probably can't
    afford a place *anywhere* in France, never mind the Cote d'Azur!
     
    Krusty, Apr 1, 2005
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    dwb Guest

    Is that with the unexploded munitions in the garden option or without?
     
    dwb, Apr 1, 2005
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    Steve Parry Guest

    Krusty fumbled, fiddled and fingered:
    note "if finances permitted" ... How many Michelin starred restaurants
    are there in Montenegro BTW ;)


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    Steve Parry
    K100RS SE & F650
    and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

    (not forgetting the SK90PY)

    http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk
     
    Steve Parry, Apr 1, 2005
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    Krusty Guest

    Labour's cheap out there - just hire a couple of peasants, tie 'em to a
    stick & poke around a bit - sorted.
     
    Krusty, Apr 1, 2005
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    Krusty Guest

    Three.
     
    Krusty, Apr 1, 2005
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  10. Especially Paris. TBH, I'm not as in love with Paris as I have been.
    Still, I've spent a good fifteen years out of the last twenty here, and
    have known and loved this country since I was old enough to stop shitting
    in my underpants. A change is coming, I can sense it. I don't believe
    that I could leave France, this blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this
    France, as I would die, but Paris is becoming a little tiresome: its noise,
    its speed, but mostly its aggression. In the métro the other night, SO and
    I sat across from a young man, maybe eighteen or nineteen years old, and
    possibly of Algerian descent. He sat there with one of the most evil
    scowls that I've ever seen, such hatred of the world at large. What had
    happened to render this youth so unhappy we shall never know, but SO and I
    both agreed that he summed up Paris for us. By contrast, when we're at the
    in-laws' in the Bourgogne, we wake to the sound of birds chirping (I don't
    recall the last time I heard a bird chirp in Paris), we can dine in the
    back garden in silence any time of the day. Would we miss Paris ?
    Possibly. France is in our blood and never shall we forsake her, but we're
    both considering asking to be 'mutés' to the provinces, come next year. I
    fancy Bretagne as it resembles in parts my native Irlande, but she's a
    frozen snotter who wants to go to the sud, maybe Perpignan.
     
    genuine_froggie, Apr 1, 2005
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    ogden Guest

    <snip some kind of a-place-in-the-country bollocks>

    What starts in the city ends up in the country.
    Have you not noticed that?
     
    ogden, Apr 2, 2005
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  12. On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:08:34 +0100, genuine_froggie

    [des gets scowled at]
    You're simply getting older - a lot of people have thoughts of moving
    out of cities when their perception of those things that were once
    thrilling and part of what they recognised as their own age group become
    threatening and / or tiresome.
     
    Paul Corfield, Apr 2, 2005
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    porl Guest

    Maybe then the fact that you thought it illuminating to comment on his
    racial characteristics suggests a conclusion you have already reached in
    your own mind.
     
    porl, Apr 3, 2005
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    Cab Guest

    Maybe Des is really French then.

    (BTW, you get my email?)
     
    Cab, Apr 3, 2005
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    porl Guest

    Not if you sent it to this address, its been dead for years.
     
    porl, Apr 3, 2005
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    porl Guest

    What do you mean? And why does that explain why you saw fit to mention he
    was "possibly of Algerian descent"?
     
    porl, Apr 3, 2005
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    porl Guest

    Why? What on earth does it lend to your opinion of Paris? You didn't mention
    his apparent level of wealth, or in fact any other feature of his at all
    apart from his youth. Neither did you expand on any socio-political
    implications of being Algerian in France's capital, which might be
    reasonable to qualify the comment. But you presumably *had* a reason for
    specifically mentioning his race in a seperate clause and I'm asking what
    that reason was.
     
    porl, Apr 3, 2005
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    porl Guest

    Well, there seems to be no motive at all, ulterior or otherwise. I'm sure it
    was entirely innocent set-dressing on your part.
     
    porl, Apr 3, 2005
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    porl Guest

    How would I know? You say there was none, so any investigation ends there.
     
    porl, Apr 3, 2005
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    Cab Guest

    Bugger. Have you got another one that I can use? Just a quick question.
     
    Cab, Apr 3, 2005
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